Cortex (very) Lite Solo Game - Blank Slate

[IsabellaRose]

Introduction

I am playing through the story of a young woman who wakes with amnesia in a small medical center in eastern Kentucky. After a severe flood, she was found unconscious with head trauma near the edge of the woods and brought here by a local who happened to be passing by. The circumstances (after a flood) were randomly generated, the location was randomly chosen from a list based on data suggesting areas with high likelihood of flooding. I want her to be "someone special", perhaps a magical girl, a secret agent, an alien, a government experiment... I want her to have been escaping from something or on a mission or... well, something interesting. I want a past that will come back with a vengeance. BUT... I also want to be surprised by her past. My mind is likely to start filling in blanks on its own right out of the gate, and what I don't want is to decide, I want to use the tables in Mythic GM Emulator to lead me to her background randomly until there are enough details to make sense and get it firmed up and finalized in my head.

Rules Used

Cortex Prime: I'm using a very stripped down version of Cortex. I'm using the following Trait Sets: *Distinctions (with SFX), *Relationships (with statements), Attributes (Physical, Mental, Social), and Skills (with specializations). I'll be tracking injury using Stress (Exhausted, Injured, Emotional, and Aroused (because I'm still keeping it lewd)). In the beginning, I'll be leaning into the Attributes and Skills, but once she has relationships and her past reveals her Distinctions, I intend to switch over to those. I'd love to incorporate Values, but it feels weird to set her Values when I don't even know who she is yet. I may add more or switch it up if it feels appropriate to do so. I'm also loosely tracking possessions. 

Mythic GM Emulator, v2: I'm using the base system to setup the game using the "Next Expected Scene" based on what would make sense given the story so far. Then I roll against the Chaos Factor to determine if the next expected scene occurs as expected, if it's altered, or if it's an interrupt scene (i.e. random event). I'll be letting her past come through only via interrupt scenes at first until I can establish something cohesive for her backstory. I'm using the oracle tables to guide the story, action, NPC creation and attitudes... pretty much everything. 

 

...and that's it, I think.

[IsabellaRose]

Character Sheet

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Name: Unknown
Age: Unknown
Gender: Female

Distinction 1: Fit Human d8
Distinction 2: Pretty Female d8
Distinction 3: Amnesiac d8

Abilities
Physical d6 | Mental d6 | Social d6

Skills
Unknown

Relationships
None

Stress
Exhausted | Injured | Emotional | Aroused

Equipment
None

Threads List

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NPC List

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Edited 7 minutes ago by IsabellaRose